Onyxia is the worst realm for PVP

As a horde player, the RBG/AV/WSG queues are guaranteed 30+ minutes, sometimes even 1.5 hour queue...
After I finally enter AV, I see alliance mages having 1000 HKs and 1.5 million dmg... never ending AV...
I'm 31 and I have other things to do in life, but when I finally decide to log in for a few games, my whole time window that is dedicated to WoW is just wasted by this long battleground queue...
Why not have a mercenary mode where I play for the Alliance team as a horde if there are not enough Alliances???
I can't wrap my head around the fact that a server with 12k online would have such long queues...
The Orgrimmar building with PVP vendors has an invisible wall preventing me from entering... I mean If I need a specific rank to enter, I would appreciate some notification in the game...
We have RDF as a quality-of-life change on the Vanilla realm, why not have mercenary mode as well?

there is mercenary mode but it either doesn't work or it limits the number of players of the opposite faction so drastically it doesn't solve the problem at all. i enabled it but it doesnt change the queue times and i always end up being on horde side so can't tell which one it is.
you need rank 6 to enter the pvp building but neither does the game tell you that nor does it show your rank anywhere (at least i couldn't find it). it feels like they just didn't care about pvp in the slightest, with a hk farming incentive that leads to graveyard camping and no incentive to win bgs. limitations on bgs that lead to absurde queue times (especially on horde side) and multiboxers allowed. i've also not seen them comment on any of those forum post even once to maybe ensure pvpers they would improve the systems or at least justify the systems in place. considering how populated the server is, you can't really blame the player base for any of those problems, they are 100% a result of bad systems that make bgs boring and a waste of time.

some of the things they should do imo are:
- not allow multiboxing of any kind in bgs (with or without software).
- change the rank system from purely dependent on hk to either dependent on honor or a more sophisticated system factoring in hk, honor, bg wins and losses etc.
- enable crossfaction bgs without limitation.
- enable multiple bgs at the same time.
- implement bg marks you can trade for goods or honor.

tbc will also not fix many of those issues so no point in waiting for that. pvp will be completely dead soon if they don't try and tackle those things. i came here for pvp because the population is huge (bloated by multiboxers but still) and a few days after hitting lvl 60 i am already thinking about going back to the 300 player peak server i came from which is pretty sad.

True true on all points.
For multiboxing I know it's allowed and I haven't met any bigger multiboxer that I would consider a problem, usually, they are only 5 -10 toons which I don't care, haven't met a 40-man multiboxer yet...

On Vanilla client the PVP building in Orgrimmar has a visual barrier so I got the clue that I probably need the rank to enter it...
Considering how long it will take for the server to enter the LK phase, I think I'm out... PvP ain't fun at all in such conditions... I am worried the lesson from Outland hasn't been learned

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Originally Posted by pelike

As a horde player, the RBG/AV/WSG queues are guaranteed 30+ minutes, sometimes even 1.5 hour queue...
After I finally enter AV, I see alliance mages having 1000 HKs and 1.5 million dmg... never ending AV...
I'm 31 and I have other things to do in life, but when I finally decide to log in for a few games, my whole time window that is dedicated to WoW is just wasted by this long battleground queue...
Why not have a mercenary mode where I play for the Alliance team as a horde if there are not enough Alliances???
I can't wrap my head around the fact that a server with 12k online would have such long queues...
The Orgrimmar building with PVP vendors has an invisible wall preventing me from entering... I mean If I need a specific rank to enter, I would appreciate some notification in the game...
We have RDF as a quality-of-life change on the Vanilla realm, why not have mercenary mode as well?

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3.000 players population drop in the past few days during peak times,speaks for itself.

This realm wont even see release of TBC,let alone WOTLK and transition to Icecrown.

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Originally Posted by Werdex

3.000 players population drop in the past few days during peak times,speaks for itself.

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The main reason of online drop - PVP trolls on lvling locations, i literally cant lvling because there are always rogue trolls camping for kills, also there is no chance to join RDF cuz there are almost no tanks. So i have stopped playing cuz i cant grow my character lol, i think there are many players that are also dismoraled by that PVP disaster.

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